"In response to the government's attack on our postal service and workers, effective immediately, all CUPW members at Canada Post are on a nationwide strike," CUPW said in a statement.

By imposing these changes without regard for the union's collective agreement, the Liberals are burning bridges with the labour movement faster than an Xpresspost delivery. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #canlab #cdnpoli

The Liberals are handing management at #CanadaPost a battering ram to beat CUPW into submission. I suspect the union won’t go down without a fight. www.thestar.com/business/ott... #cdnpoli #canlab

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg. This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines. cawls.ca/en/2026-annu... #canlab #LabourStudies

Greater unionization rates improve the environment, income equality and public health, according to a new CCPA report. www.readthemaple.com/unions-impro... #canlab

Avi Lewis kicks off #NDP leadership campaign with a call for the party to embrace class-based politics. #canlab #cdnpoli

Canada Post to present new contract offer to postal workers www.thestar.com/business/can... #canlab #cdnpoli

#AirCanada flight attendants overwhelmingly reject tentative deal with the airline www.thestar.com/business/air... #canlab #cdnpoli

A few thoughts on the overwhelming tentative agreement rejection at #AirCanada. 🧵 #canlab 1. The union oversold the tentative agreement by declaring the end of unpaid work. That framing seems to have rubbed some members the wrong way.

Air Canada flight attends vote to reject tentative agreement by over 99%. Now that's a statement. #canlab

As contract vote closes, Air Canada attendants consider rejecting a deal that maintains pay inequality ricochet.media/labour/as-co... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social #canlab #cdnpoli

Congrats to Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social on the launch of their new edited collection: The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada btlbooks.com/book/the-art... #canlab

Jump-start your future career with Labour Studies collaborative programs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=keM1... #BrockU #cdnpse

Ottawa may need to change its intervention strategy in the wake of the #AirCanada strike. @eidlin.bsky.social and I weigh in on what may come next. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/aft... #cdnpoli #canlab

🚨 New publication 🚨 With @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in @csa-scs.bsky.social Does the public sector vote differently and hold differing political attitudes than the general public? Available #OpenAccess #polisky doi.org/10.1111/cars...

New publication by #BrockU professors @alisonbraley.bsky.social & @profsavage.bsky.social "Academic Staff Associations and Vaccination Mandates in the Canadian University Sector" www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ri... #canlab #cdnpse

"...observers of the Canadian labour movement do not expect this momentum to last. In fact, they say the macroeconomic climate of lower inflation and rising economic uncertainty has chilled union militancy in Canada and cast a cloud of fear over workers." www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I’m back in the Star today with a new piece on how striking Air Canada flight attendants successfully called Ottawa's bluff — and set a potentially significant precedent in industrial relations that may soon have important political implications as well: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

It's been quite a media week. After 40+ interviews about Air Canada flight attendants, I wanted to weigh in on an issue that was less addressed: Air Canada’s weak management www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Canada Post union makes counter-offer as negotiations with Crown corporation continue www.thestar.com/business/can... #canlab #cdnpoli

When governments stack the deck in favour of employers, unions are going to resist. Workers are going to use their leverage to insist on negotiated settlements, even if that means ignoring the law. globalnews.ca/video/113417... #canlab #cdnpoli #AirCanada

How an act of defiance by #AirCanada flight attendants was a win for labour rights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #canlab #cdnpoli

What do we learn from the Air Canada strike? See my CTV interview. review.bellmedia.ca/view/1665101...

LABR 1P94: Workplace Rights and Equity #LabourStudies #BrockU

Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/air...

CUPE flight attendants defied a Section 107 back-to-work order, forced #AirCanada back to the bargaining table, and successfully bargained a tentative agreement. A new page of Canadian labour history has been written today. cbc.ca/player/play/... #cndpoli #canlab

CUPE's strategy appears to be working, as Air Canada has returned to the bargaining table. ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #canlab #aircanadaflightattendants

Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. “This is the natural result of the repeated use of Section 107,” said @stephross.bsky.social. “As soon as workers have some power to actually move their employers, the government steps in.” www.thestar.com/business/air... #canlab

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025

When politicians allow the system to be rigged in favour of employers, workers have no choice but to resist. Unions can’t be expected to bow to unjust laws — and the way the Liberals have abused section 107 is clearly unjust. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #canlab #cdnpoli

This powerful image of resistance is set to become an iconic symbol of the ongoing struggle for workers' rights in Canada. #canlab

A 1-2 punch of @profsavage.bsky.social and me commenting on the problems of repeated government intervention in labour disputes #CanLab : ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/federal...

Management at Air Canada is using the lockout threat as a pressure point on the Prime Minister. But when the government swoops in only at the behest of employers, it undermines our entire system of labour relations. www.barrietoday.com/business/som... #cdnpoli #canlab

LABR 3P06: Class and Culture Check out this course and many others offered by the Department of Labour Studies at #BrockU. brocku.ca/social-scien...

My two cents on current labour negotiations at Canada Post and Air Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Wise words from Sam Gindin on what it means in practice to think in class terms. www.youtube.com/shorts/2-uYq... #canlab

Amazon’s bid to overturn B.C. labour ruling on workers’ unionization rejected www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #canlab

Know someone who is applying to university this year? Make sure they check out what the Department of Labour Studies at @brocku.ca has on offer. brocku.ca/social-scien... #Brocku #cdnpse #canlab

After unionized Canada Post workers reject ‘final offers,’ what happens next? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #canlab #cdnpoli

Yes, Canada Post's strategy backfired. But the fact that over 30% of postal workers backed the employer's "final" offer should make the union nervous. Makes for very complicated strategic choices going forward. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #canlab #cdnpoli

The forced final offer vote turned out to be major distraction. It didn’t bring the parties any closer to concluding an agreement. And arguably, it only drew them further apart. The route to a negotiated settlement is a muddy as ever. www.thestar.com/business/can... #canlab

Join BTL, WAHC and editors Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social for the launch of The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada! 📅 Sunday August 31 ⏰3 pm - 5 pm 📍51 Stuart St, Hamilton RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

Check out LABR 3P90: Collective Bargaining, our simulation-based course open to all #BrockU students.

In internal documents provided to The Tyee, Employment and Social Development Canada proposed changing how migrant workers in the agriculture and fishing sectors are paid, housed and brought into the country. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

#BrockU Professor of @brocklabour.bsky.social @profsavage.bsky.social spoke to The Globe and Mail about Canada Post’s most recent contract offer to its workers. #CanLab www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Registration is open for the Fall/Winter terms. Consider LABR 4P41: Labour Law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. brocku.ca/labourstudies

New research finds that the Conservatives have made significant inroads among construction union members and those with college education, challenging traditional assumptions about Canadian labour politics. cup.org/44CeoGl #canlab #cdnpoli

#OpenAccess from @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social - The Labour Vote Revisited: Impacts of Union Type and Demographics on Electoral Behaviour in Canadian Federal Politics - cup.org/44CeoGl - Daniel Westlake, @profsavage.bsky.social & Jonah Butovsky #FirstView

The 2026 CAWLS annual conference will be held June 3-5, 2026 in Winnipeg, hosted by the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba. Details and CfP to follow.

Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada www.readthemaple.com/uber-drivers... #canlab #Uber